2009/12/24 Christopher Lees <christopher_l...@iprimus.com.au>: > On Thu, 2009-12-24 at 12:00 +0000, Derek Smith wrote: > Ubuntu 9.10 has known problems with certain wireless modems... > unfortunately. Reliability problems. I mean, these modems are not worth > anything near the $130 you pay for them and they're always unreliable in > moderate signal areas, but Ubuntu 9.10 will sometimes take a couple of > tries to connect.
I live in Rural area and only have access the the internet with 3G wireless. I have noticed that Network Manager takes a lot of tries to connect, I have moved to using wvdial and it connects first time every time, and I have also set it up to dial on demand for me as I run VoIP cause not want the bill of a home phone. My local mobile tower to me is ~20Km away for Optus, but I am connected with Internode. So this might be another avenue for you to try. A breif guide to setting up wvdial I wrote can be found here[1] > > Some people report success with upgrading the kernel using the debs > available at the Ubuntu kernel PPA (lost the URL sorry, Google might > help) but I've yet to give that a good workout on my netbook. The Ubuntu Kernel stuff can be found here[2] Regards Dale [1] http://quail.southernvaleslug.org/webblog/archives/136 [2] http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/ -- [WWW] http://quail.southernvaleslug.org/ "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them" - Albert Einstein -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
